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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23

People

Edward Lowassa age 14
Seni Pramoj age 63
Kukrit Pramoj age 57
Sonthi Boonyaratglin age 21
Anand Panyarachun age 36
Chaovarat Chanweerakul age 32
Hubert Ingraham age 21
ʻAkilisi Pohiva age 27
Mohamed Ennaceur age 34
Apolo Nsibambi age 27
Godfrey Binaisa age 48
Vitalii Masol age 39
Sato Kilman age 10
Ramón José Velásquez age 51
Vo Van Kiet age 45
Mohammed Basindawa age 33
Arnulfo Arias age 67
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 74
Francisco Sagasti age 23
Hassan Ali Khayre age 4 months
Kim Min-seok age 4
Momčilo Krajišnik age 23
Mladen Ivanić age 9
Mercedes Aráoz age 7
Andrés Rodríguez age 45
Liu Bocheng age 75
Glubb Pasha age 71
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ age 37
Albert Reynolds age 35
Lee Jong-wook age 23
Kenneth Clarke age 28
John Smith age 29
Johannes Frießner age 76
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 72
Veljko Kadijević age 42
Dürrüşehvar Sultan age 54
Neslişah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk) age 47
Sam Manekshaw age 54
Ko Yong-hui age 16
Prince Nicholas of Romania age 65
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein age 82
Prince William of Gloucester age 26
Nathan Deal age 26
Sonny Perdue age 21
Mitch Daniels age 19
Gray Davis age 25
Otmar Hasler age 14
Gaylord Nelson age 52
Albert Pintat age 25
Carlos Lacoste age 39
Juan José Torres age 48
Ivan Kostov age 18
Saye Zerbo age 36
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo age 26
Albert Pahimi Padacké age 1
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 44
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 28
Josef Tošovský age 17
Adolphe Muzito age 11
Sufi Abu Taleb age 43
Francisco Flores age 8
Tosiwo Nakayama age 36
Xenophon Zolotas age 64
Tillman Thomas age 23
Carlos Gomes Júnior age 18
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 25
Gérard Latortue age 34
P. J. Patterson age 33
Bruce Golding age 20
Abdullah Ensour age 29
Erik Eriksen age 65
Victor Marijnen age 51
Phankham Viphavanh age 17
Abdurrahim El-Keib age 18
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé age 20
Kessai Note age 18
Theo-Ben Gurirab age 30
Anand Satyanand age 24
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou age 14
Victor Ciorbea age 13
Constantin Dăscălescu age 45
Mugur Isărescu age 19
Frederick Ballantyne age 32
Abdoul Mbaye age 15
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 31
Andrej Bajuk age 24
Anton Rop age 7
Jeremiah Manele age 4 months
Riyad Farid Hijab age 2
Qahhor Mahkamov age 36
Mizengo Pinda age 20
Cleopa Msuya age 37
Apisai Ielemia age 13
Anatolii Kinakh age 14
Yevhen Marchuk age 27
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 56
Aparicio Méndez age 64
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 58
Guillermo Endara age 32
Kim Hwang-sik age 20
Chung Un-chan age 21
Kim Jong-pil age 42
Chung Sye-kyun age 17
William Gopallawa age 70
D. M. Jayaratne age 37
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 27
Matthew Ridgway age 73
Franco Maria Malfatti age 41
David Malpass age 12
David Blunkett age 21
Amin al-Hafiz age 46
Dragiša Cvetković age 75
J. Lawton Collins age 72
John W. Snow age 29
John Healey age 8
Walid Jumblatt age 19
Li Yuanchao age 17
Issa Pliyev age 64
Masahito, Prince Hitachi age 32
Markian Popov age 65
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia age 60
Princess Ileana of Romania age 59
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland age 56
Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria age 29
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon age 6
Jim Gilmore age 18
Bob McDonnell age 14
Terry McAuliffe age 11
Mike Braun age 14
Bill Lee age 8
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 50
Elliot Richardson age 48
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 22
Lester Bird age 30
Ramón Puerta age 16
Bill Hayden age 35
Sam Mostyn age 2
Alfons Gorbach age 70
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 28
Paul van Zeeland age 74
Colville Young age 35
Stefan Janev age 8
Goukouni Oueddei age 26
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 76
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 53
Rodrigo Carazo Odio age 41
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 4
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 21
Osvaldo Hurtado age 29
Galo Plaza age 62
Joseph Urusemal age 16
Teuvo Aura age 55
Keijo Liinamaa age 39
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 73
Ioannis Grivas age 45
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 40
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 37
Vinicio Cerezo age 25
Desmond Hoyte age 39
Henri Namphy age 35
Claudette Werleigh age 21
Tiburcio Carías age 92
Péter Boross age 40
Károly Grósz age 38
Geir Hallgrímsson age 42
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 15
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 54
Salim al-Huss age 38
Moses Blah age 21
Anton Buttigieg age 56
Litokwa Tomeing age 28
Alexandru Munteanu age 4
Khil Raj Regmi age 19
Salou Djibo age 3
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 8
Cuthbert Sebastian age 46
Mahammed Dionne age 8
Zoran Živković age 7
Flavio Cotti age 28
Chen Chien-jen age 17
Sanya Dharmasakti age 61
Kriangsak Chamanan age 50
Chatchai Chunhawan age 48
Arthur Foulkes age 40
Marguerite Pindling age 36
Ahmed Hachani age 11
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 45
Charlot Salwai age 5
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 61
Julius Chan age 29
Kim Boo-kyum age 10
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 52
Zoran Tegeltija age 6
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 12
Denis Zvizdić age 4
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 12
Edem Kodjo age 30
Miles Dempsey age 71
Masayoshi Ito age 54
Nicolaas Diederichs age 64